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    Level of knowledge about prostate cancer among users attending the outpatient medical office of a health center in the district of Chancay - Lima 2020
    (Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2020-10-11) Vera More, Diana Carolina; Bastidas Solis, Miriam Cecilia
    Prostate cancer is a malignant tumor that grows slowly and is initially limited to the prostate gland and metastasizes through the bloodstream and lymphatic fluid, invading bones and organs. It is classified according to the degree of the disease, in most cases. cases are detected in advanced degrees, due to people's carelessness regarding their self-care and lack of concern for their health and the lack of knowledge of this neoplasia, men do not go to health services; The large percentage of this population consults when they already have the disease. It is worth mentioning that the nursing staff has to make this topic known through educational sessions to the population that comes to the health center, through the preventive promotional program that is under their responsibility, being a strategy of the first level of care, where they focus in carrying out Preventive - Promotional activities, contributing to the comprehensive well-being of the beneficiaries, through the promotion of healthy habits, screening actions for early diagnosis, timely treatment, identification of risk factors and diseases, with the purpose of avoiding disease progression. In this way, the grief and pain of having an individual with this disease will be avoided for the family. Objective: Identify the level of knowledge about prostate cancer among users who attend the outpatient Medicine clinic of the Chancay District Health Center – Lima. Material and methods: The study has a quantitative approach according to the research structure it is descriptive, according to the management of the variable it is observational and according to the organization of data collection it is prospective; It is cross-sectional.